Sentences with phrase «than mediocre by»

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Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Just like Ohio State, Bama also had just lots of blowouts of mediocre teams... albeit without losing at home, losing to an unranked team, losing by more than two scores, or doing all three, as Ohio State did.

Both of these are far less accomplishments than his predecessor KS, who was classified by Pitt fan base as mediocre his last 4 yrs at Vandy.

West Brom may get less for him this summer than they would have gotten last summer or this past January, and Berahino almost certainly eroded any wages he might have earned by his mediocre play during his dispute with the club.

Im struggling to understand the excitement surrounding Lukau with a lot of gooners, he's rubbish in my opinion or at the best mediocre, we'd have two lamposts rather than one if we got him in ok so he's 23 but by now he should have been at the top of his game and he's clearly not and is no better than giroud anyone??? can any one explain why he's the answer?

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

It was very mediocre, and could be accomplished by a player that could be paid a considerably less than what Grant had agreed to with Baltimore.

Its interesting to note that Ramsey who I believe had a pretty mediocre season last year with us appeared to play to his full potential in the euro's which means to me that he's either not surrounded by the right balance at Arsenal OR he want to be noticed to move on from us, and who could blame him really we all know that the manager and board have no will to ein the PL as they place thier profits far higfher than thier silverware cabinet and that Im sorry to say is a fact

The hypothesis was that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) would be undervalued when they play against the top teams in baseball (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

They are right.As a matter a fact, I feel myself ashamed sometimes seeing Alexis giving everything, imploring the rest of the team to press, to play the game, to do all they can to win.And the team response?Lazy primadonas watching the clock for the end of the game, being more preocupied for their haircuts, beards or tatoos than running.An army of lazy caterpilars led by a senile, totally outdated manager.How can you retain a player of such calibre inside of this stinky organization.Without determination and spirit, football is nothing, just wasted time.Arsene doesn't understand that, Alexis and the fans do.The fans are doing the right think, for Chileans is already becoming a national embarrasement, a natinal shame having their best player, an icon of Chile, wasting his skill and ambition in such mediocre team.

We already knew from last season's analysis that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) have been undervalued when they square off with the league's elite (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

Hope this one doesn't pan out the only African player we should be going for is Keita other than that it makes no sense to me, there are so many wingers better than a one season Mahrez (dembele, Brandt, Lemar, pulisic, berrardi the kid from sassuolo, Forsberg, Marco asensio, Douglas costa, Allan saint maximin, the list goes on) plus all I read was how good his dribbling skills and the occasional goal or two, I also have seen him play and as soon as things get tough his head drops that's what I mean by lazy no character, no fighting spirit and we got loads of those players the only one who differs is Sanchez so if he is coming we lose Sanchez, so no sorry I won't be happy with that mediocre replacement!!

Yes, their record over the last two - plus months is a disaster, but they've only been outscored by nine runs in that time, so they're probably closer to mediocre than putrid.

A mediocre puzzle game, by far worse than Talos Principle or Antichamber (what seems to be the closest games).

In fact, is a issue with most of Sony's exclusive: Its mostly driven by the hype of the console blind fanbase, Like the mediocre Killzone series and Uncharted, which are good games, but nothing more than that.

Bertrand Bonello has made what I'd be more comfortable calling a far masterpiece rather than a near masterpiece, a film that comes to life in sublime flashes while being surrounded by more plodding and mediocre parts.

It surely goes without saying for anyone within the iOS community, but any releases by Mediocre Games are far more than the everyday experiences that their modest name suggests.

However, the ones that are here are woefully uninspired; the usually awesome composing team of Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy, who have reliably turned in some superlative work in even the most mediocre of films, seem to have given Carroll leftovers from their scrap bin for him to mangle in his ho - hum picturizations, robotically performed by Larter and Khan, who has never been anything better than an adequate dancer on his best days, making his casting as some brilliant choreographer even more head - scratching (where is Hrithik Roshan where you need him?).

When the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, it had the weight of a legion of Suzanne Collins fans and pop culture zeitgeist behind it, but managed to be little more than a vaguely interesting (if derivative) story told in a mediocre fashion by director Gary Ross.

was released in 2012, it had the weight of a legion of Suzanne Collins fans and pop culture zeitgeist behind it, but managed to be little more than a vaguely interesting (if derivative) story told in a mediocre fashion by director Gary Ross.

I am shocked that the film maintains a respectable 7.3 user rating on IMDb (higher than the likes of Amistad and War of the Worlds) and even a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (albeit by the skin of its teeth with a middling 61 % all - critics approval and a very mediocre average rating of 6.2 / 10).

The mediocre nature of the final product seems to have been dictated by demographic appeals, test panels, and management interests, which leave the viewer thinking that financial success was more of a goal than artistic.

The flood of disaggregated student achievement data loosed by NCLB has been extremely valuable — arguably the best thing about that statute — and we're better than ever before at identifying bad and mediocre schools, including schools that work well for some students but not for others.

The Economist: School choice does not work as well as its advocates hope WashPost: Exodus from PR grows as island struggles to rebound from Hurricane Maria Salt Lake Tribune: While the principal made thousands marketing this school, students» grades were mediocre Voice of San Diego: Tormented by a Student's Sexual Assault, a Teacher Falls NPR: More Than Half Of Transgender Teachers Surveyed Tell NPR They Are Harassed Crain's Detroit: Duggan aims to knit public schools, charters with transportation

Profitability was recognized by the father of value investing Benjamin Graham in 1928 as a predominant driver of stock returns: It is undoubtedly better to concentrate on one stock that you know is going to prove highly profitable, rather than dilute your results to a mediocre figure, merely for diversifications sake.

You can continue to settle for mediocre returns... or you can take immediate action now that protects your hard - earned money from the market's downswings and puts big profits in your pocket using the same system that Warren Buffett has sworn by for more than 40 years.

I can pay # 30 for something like Borderlands and keep myself amused for 60 hours +, or I can pay # 13 to go and see a mediocre film at a London cinema for an hour and a half, having my chair kicked by some little *** who more than likely has a knife so I can't even tell him to **** off.

It's a good number by Nintendo standards but Playstation standards are way higher these days, oh Xbox fans eat some crow Horizon just smashed Halo 5 and Gears 4 in Xbox strongest EU territory, now imagine the bloodbath in the rest of the world baby yeah I'm telling you Horizon is officially bigger than your mediocre shooters.

In fact, is a issue with most of Sony's exclusive: Its mostly driven by the hype of the console blind fanbase, Like the mediocre Killzone series and Uncharted, which are good games, but nothing more than that.

probably the exact breakdown i'd expect for a mediocre product driven by hype that panders rather than innovates.

In FACT, DoA has NEVER been revered in the least by the fighting game community, and the laughable lack of depth to the gameplay, mindlessly mediocre roster, convoluted - to - all - hell story, and inadequate balancing has worked to the demise of the series as being anything other than a halfway decent distraction every now again.

I have started using the giclees more often because it was a way of getting my best work seen by an audience as promotion rather than a mediocre painting.

It may not be made by Google, but it's a heck of a lot better than Microsoft's mediocre attempt at turning Android into Windows Phone Part 2.

Even a mediocre agreement is usually better than no agreement, because it avoids the damage to the children by the two of you continuing to fight.